The Wilmingtonian., 1887-10-29
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 90, 1887.
wilfrid Blunt's Intrusion.

Illb dctibu, ldhlnS ~ III q Sohotai oohopt nHi
probably tend more to exasperate the enc
mics of Home Rrle in Ireland and therefore .
put farther back and more remote that just |
claim for local self government which is a |
As we understood from the two members
of the=Euglish parliament who were here
last week, Sir Thomas Esmoude and Arthur
0'Connor, matters between the two peoples
of England aud Ireland are in such trim
Just now that any incautious movement
would tend to make more remote the acqui-
stton of those hopes whose real zation it ! +
not questioned is only matter of time
Therefore what Sir Wilfrid Blunt har
done, although with the best intentions can
not but be cnndemuedby the wiser and trueI
frlerds OF Ireland
SIR W,lfrld Bluut is an English man win,
should not particularly at the present crisis
have been allowed to appear, with the results
which are now apparent of involving mat
is, upon the face of it, Trelaud's friend, bu
through his misguided action will aggra-
vate the opposition and do much more dis
advantage to the cause than good.
As Mr.. O'Connor plainly said the consti-
tutional pathway and not that of intimida-
tion, opposition or force is the proper policy
and it is the only one which holds out posi-
tive assurance of success. And, to quote
Mr.. 0'Connor again, the field is in parla-
ment. Whatever may be the injustice in
English laws they must be met there, which
is the proper field for their consideration.
There the arguments will be heard, for the
L LIBERAL party will insist that the Irish party
be heard when they make their requests
constitutionally.
The righteousness of desultory and ex.
ternal warfare Of the Blunt type is apparent
enough as also IS IT'D hurtfulness to the Irish
cause.
Whatever are the laws passed by the I'm
perial parliament they should be obeyed fol
the present. This is necessary in order that
the constitutional warfare may not be COM
promised nor its leaders open to criticism iu
parliament,
Their arguments at st. Stephens are only
weakened by the course of iiindicious
friends like Sir Wnifrid Blunt
His course is one of opposition to the laws
of the land. And, what, 1t must be asked
is the value of it. Simply this, that il
places the Irish leaders and their cause
with grave compromise, in contradictory
position before the English people who ar,
at this moment honestly desrous of doins
what is fair aud right to Ireland
But the British government will t h
driven. They cannot be forced to max
concessions to Ireland. The talk of physi
cal force, as Sir Thomas Esmonde and Mr.
O'Connor showed is perfectly Iidicuous il
the premises. What can small peopl
numbering less than 900, and even
that with a strong aud iuh lential mnorit
i'll their own country, do in opposition t
$4,000 900 of people, aud that race Oh
whose history plainly shows that they vii
tolerate no intermeddling or browbeatiug
There are certain anxioms, s.lT-evdcn
truths, which the wiser Irish leaders kno,
as well as the English people. Anon
them aie that England will not tolerat
separation and as little will it tolerate
people who refuse TO look for constitutions
reform by unconstitutional methods.
1t is difficult to see how this continue
trouble and opposition is practiced in Irl
land when Mr.. O'Connor and wise agtator
of his stripe plainly tell the people that I'll
first law is order, to obey the laws an
then demand redress according to prescribe
methods.
The Irsh leaders cannot stand mp in pa
lament with any good grace and d,mar
constitutional reform while their vel
clien's are in opposition to the laws. Und,
the circumstances it is properly elaine
that the Irish leaders demands cannot /
listened to until those whom they represel
place themselves under suhiection to u
laws no matter what their nature may be-
The Irish leaders are commonly crcdte
with seeing the eXpeditncy of this. And
tlis sense it is all the more of a wonder thi
they allowed such a regretable incident
the Wilfrid Blunt affair to transpire
Mr.. Blunt may expostulate and lay
the blame Of the riot at Luughrea up,
Magistr ateByine. But dispassionate or
iGs will judge that had he noJ giatuitous
projected himself upon the scene at this
oppprtune moment it would not have ha
pened and this additional imputatiOn won
not have been afforded to Ireland's oppo
ents.
Who can blame the Tories for their {
mand that English fomenters CT disturban
in Ireland he treated the same as Lati
ones.
What Ireland needs most now is wi
had,Ts who will irown down and stand
the way of sucb inorportuDism as that {
hibited by the Eoglshmap at Loughrea Ia
week.